You deny that feminism, over the last few decades, has reduced gender inequality around the world.
What possible evidence of that is there?
You seem to discard that there are areas in which women are substantially more at risk than men, in daily life, such as going out at night or dealing with parenthood while maintaining a career.
Oh...oh god this is amazing. A man, in literally every situation in life, is more at risk than a woman is, ESPECIALLY going out at night where over 80% of violent attacks are perpetrated ON men. By simple virtue of being a female, you are literally 80% less likely to be attacked violently for any reason.
When it really comes down to it, women are just scared of everything. They FEEL scared, so they think they are more susceptible to a threat. Absurd.
And, you think dealing with parenthood while maintaining a career is a "risk"? Serious? That's your BIGGEST problem, trying to have your cake and eat it too? You've got to be kidding me.
Realistically - you should either be a parent or be a career woman - you can't have both. That's why feminists are so fucked in the head, they're running around ruining THEIR OWN lives by trying to do every goddamn thing they can (be a parent, be a high-powered career woman, be some kind of humanitarian) that they blame men when they find out that this kind of lifestyle is not only unsustainable, but unrealistic. It's as if they curse their natural maternal instinct to - GASP - stay at home and raise children. They're trying to force themselves into two roles, one of which is more forced than the other.
There's a big reason less than 50% of female Harvard Graduates are still working 30 years later, and it's because most of them would rather raise children than do both.
Still - that's not a RISK. That's all you could come up with, seriously?
It's like when a woman gets acid thrown in her face in the middle east and the entire world gets up in arms. It's isolated incidents compared to the hundreds of thousands of boys sent into war to die that NO ONE talks about. That's one of the reasons that higher education in the Middle East is almost exclusively attended by females - because they actually live long enough to get there.
I think the feminist movement can help, perhaps having been transformed into a gender equality movement. Because those are real issues. However your attitude strikes me as just as dishonest and/or thoughtless as that of the feminists you denounce.
Explain how a movement strictly created to demonize men for having taken the overwhelming risks associated with being successful and in power positions, a movement that is STRICTLY for female victimhood (because that's what it is) and ONLY to serve female imperative, can ever possibly help make the world an equal place, rather than continue to tear a larger divide and polarization between men and women? Please - explain.
Those feminists that you associate with the entire movement fail to see how their society has changed; you fail to see that it ever was different. They support their own group without trying to understand a different perspective; just like you do. They reject complexity in favor of simplistic, ready-made opinions; just like you refuse to see the diversity of the movement. They hang with one another on tumblr or in dedicated academic departments, where they spend their time seeking to corroborate their existing opinions. You evidently have been looking at many compilations of "the worst of feminism", and have spent very little time seriously trying to challenge this vision.
This is why feminism is a religion, the parallels between the kind of speak I hear CONSISTENTLY come out of every "type" of feminists mouth reminds me at every turn of all the various denominations of Christianity.
Tell a Christian - any Christian from any denomination - that you don't approve of Christianity and think it's harmful. Point out to the Catholics the rampant and willful child abuse (primarily on boys) and they'll say you're not looking at the whole picture.
Talk to someone else from a protestant background and they'll demonize THOSE Christians while touting their own Christianity as the right one.
Talk to a Baptist about an Episcopalian, a Lutheran about a Methodist, a Pentecostal about a Non-Denominational, the list goes on.
Of course they all say the same thing - it's all about loving Jesus, making the world a better place, loving your neighbor as you love yourself.
Just like EVERY feminist will eventually go back to, "It's about equality for all genders" despite the fact that every "sect" of feminism, every group, every single individual feminist's actions do not, in any conceivable way, contribute to this base narrative they all spew out of their mouths.
It's incredibly laughable.
It doesn't mean these women shouldn't take more precautions
Are you fucking insane? When I lived in the ghetto as a man, I kept my head on a swivel and took EVERY possible precaution I could because I understood the fundamental fact that it is MY responsibility to protect myself from the dangerous world and environment around me.
You've got to be kidding me - I can't even wrap my head around such an absurd mentality.
"I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING to make myself safer - tee hee!"
but it does hint that sexism is a cause of the issue. Would you deny that? If not, why start a giant pavlovian rant at the mere sight of the word "feminist"?
It has nothing to do with "gender inequality" and everything to do with poor, uneducated people.
Poor uneducated people - no matter who they are and from any background - tend to be more violent. Simple as that.
The world at large has gotten less violent and more educated, which is why it's such a shock when those who are the opposite of that start acting like poor, uneducated people typically do.
Simple.